# Gillis And Elizabeth, A. D. 1551.

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On the 21st of July, A. D. 1551, two pious Christians,
a brother by the name of Gillis, and a sister
named Elizabeth, were sentenced to death as heretics,
pursuant to the imperial decree, at Ghent, in
Flanders. They were not led forth to death at the
usual time, but at 1 o’clock in the afternoon. Having
ascended the scaffold, they prayed to God. In
the meantime, the executioner unlaced the gown of
Elizabeth, which, when she arose, fell down, so that
she stood there in her shift and linen trousers, which
the executioner, by way of mockery, had made her
put on. Feeling greatly ashamed on this account,
she immediately went to the stake, and then said:
“I thank thee, O Lord, that I am worthy to suffer
for thy name. I now stand at the touchstone, at
which God’s elect are tried. O Lord, strengthen
me, and delay not.”

Gillis said: “Dear sister, be patient in your suffering,
and comfort yourself in God; he will not forsake
you.”

“O dear brother,” said she, “I will never depart
from him.”

Gillis then cried: “O Lord, forgive them their
sins, who inflict death upon me; for as they do not
know thee, they know not what they do.”

Finally they cried out: “O heavenly Father,
into thy hands we commend our spirits.” And
thus, through fire, they died a blessed death well
pleasing unto God.



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